Sion
(lofty), Mount.
One of the various names of Mount Hermon. (4:48) only. The Greek form of the Hebrew name Zion, the famous mount of the temple. 1 Macc. 4:37,60; 5:54; 6:48,62; 7:33; 10:11; 14:27; (Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 14:1) [Jerusalem]
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Sion
Sion si'-un (si'on; Seon): ⇒See a list of verses on SION in the Bible. (1) A name given to Mt. Hermon in De 4:48. The name may mean "protuberance" or "peak," and may have denoted the lofty snow-covered horn of the mountain as seen from the South. It may, however, be a scribal error for Sirion, the name by which the mountain was known to the Zidonians. Syriac takes it in this sense, which, however, may be a correction of the Hebrew. It is possible that this name, like Senir, may have applied to some distinct part of the Hermon Range. (2) Mt. Sion. See ZION.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Sion
1. Names.—The apostle bears the names Συμεών or Σίμων, Κηφᾶς or Πέτρος ; sometimes the names are combined—Ziuwy Πέτρος. (a) Συμεών, Σίμων, When the Jews were brought into con- nexion with Greek life, for the old Hebrew name of the patriarch (Gn 9933)---ὐ νον, Συμεών (LXX)— the true Greek name Σίμων was frequently sub- stituted (Sir 50). In 1 Mac the ancestor of the Maccabees is Συμεών (21, οὗ, Jos. Ant. XI. vi. 1); Simon Macc. himself is once called Συμεών (2%), Συμεών is found in Jos. BJ Iv. iii. 9, and in the NT (of persons other than the apostle) Lk 2", Ac 13". Σίμων is often transliterated into Aramaic as ΠΡ (see Dalman, Die Worte Jesu p. 41, Gram. Aram. p. 143; ef. Deissmann, Bibelstudien p. 184; it should, however, be noticed, that in the Syriac versions of the NT the old form ΣΤΟΝ alone is used). The apostle then bore the Hebrew name Symeon, but was much more often (see below) called by the Greek name Simon, which had be- come its common equivalent. (2) Κηφᾶς, Πέτρος. The plural of the Hebrew substantive (o'22= ‘rocks’) is found in Job 30°, Jer 4% (LXX πέτραι in both og eo ‘In…
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